August 20, 2011
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TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
Chewlee is having a loving day again today. She keeps hugging and kissing me and telling me how much she loves her grandma. I can handle that any day of the week. She also told me in very dramatic terms that she *LOVES* her new school. I wasn’t feeling well (the cold) so she spent most of the morning with the Beast and Baron. It was Baron’s bath day so she got to help wash him. He will still run away and hide initially when he sees the bucket of water but when the Beast fetches him and makes him sit, he is so good about staying. I think he actually loves his baths in this hot weather and Chewlee loves to help out.
Chewlee found a large packet of perennial flowers seeds that I had here today and, of course, she wanted to plant them. She didn’t understand that it’s really kind of late to do that. To her, you just plant seeds, water and wait. In this hot weather, I’m sure they wouldn’t even germinate. They might but they would die off almost immediately. They need some moderate weather so they are strong enough to survive the heat. Her idea? We can bring them in the house where it’s cooler.
She has such an imagination. Today she gave me some imaginary presents that I had to unwrap. At least I didn’t have to guess what they were. They were all things she had made for me. A necklace that was purple and had hearts and stars. A pink Grandma shirt with different color hearts and stars. A stuffed kitty just like the one she has so we both have kitties. It went on like that for several more *gifts* and then there was the blanket she told me she had to buy and she apologized for not being able to *make it* for me but she didn’t have time because she goes to school. That really cracked me up.
The Beast found out that he can’t just close our bedroom door when he goes to take his bath. He has to lock it because a closed door is an automatic challenge to Chewlee. She thinks nothing of walking in on him and then he’s trying to cover himself with a wash cloth. He wasn’t using one in there all the time because we have scrunchies we use (those net balls). He’s now got one permanently on the wash rag bar even tho’ he’s locking the door. He just isn’t sure she might not be able to pick the lock somehow.
We started a new thing with Chewlee because her mother said she’s been doing it. I figured we should reinforce it when she’s here. For every glass of chocolate milk she has, she has to have a glass of water and then the next glass is of regular milk. The Beast was a bit surprised when she asked for water after her chocolate milk but…he recovered fast. He also checked to make sure she had finished her water before he gave her regular milk. I’m a bit surprised that she hasn’t asked again for more chocolate milk but she might be saving it for her last drink of the night. She doesn’t get anything more to drink after 8pm so that there are no *incidents* during the night. She sometimes doesn’t wake up enough and she’s had a few. Enough so that the Princess got a rubber sheet and a pad for under her. But, for the most part, she’s very good. She hasn’t had an accident here at all when she’s stayed overnight.
She’s pretending she’s at the beach today and has separate blankets for her stuffed animals and her baby doll on the *sand*. I talked her out of using the umbrella in here mainly because it’s just too small a space with everything laying all over. I can’t even walk without stepping on something.
But she’s having a good time and is talking with all her *friends* and helping them swim. She’s also showing me how she holds her breath when she goes under the water. She kept asking me to come in the water with her but I convinced her that I couldn’t with the sores on my toes. In reality, if I had access to the ocean, I would be in the water. It’s very cleansing and would help them heal.It’s kind of funny that the Princess calls me every day I have Chewlee to find out how she is doing. I guess she’s afraid that Chewlee might act up or something and have me pulling my hair out. After all the kids I’ve raised, she sure isn’t going to get the best of me. I can handle anything she pulls or tries to pull. Most of the time, we have no problem. She has more problems with the Beast mainly because he has no patience and, sometimes, he isn’t paying attention and doesn’t realize she is *pretending* something or other.
They say we are going to have rain later so I am going to post this while I can. Love you all and hope you had a good day. Have a wonderful Sunday and I’ll see you then.
